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"The objection to ree, "is that we can't make a fire to cook by--it would be too plainly visible from the road"

"But I can no fin' road by dark," explained Giova "It bad road by day, ver' ht No, we got stay here til e, "we can eat some of this canned stuff and have our ha, eh?"

"And now that we've gotten through Payson safely," suggested The Oskaloosa Kid, "let's change back into our own clothes This disguise h His quarry would reht, and atoward Payson and a telephone as fast as his legs would carry him

In an old brick structure a hundred yards below themachinery of Payson had been installed before the days of the great central power plant a hundredas they lay stretched upon the floor

"I tell you I seen hiuy froot up like a Gyp; but I knew hiht This scenery of hisphoney doin', or I wouldn't have trailed hi I done it, fer he hadn't ben there fivecomes The Kid an' a skirt and pretty soon a nudder chicken wid a calf on a string, er mebbie it was a sheep--it was pretty husky lookin' fer a sheep though An' I sticks aroun' a uy call the first skirt 'Miss Pri to note the effect of his words on his hearers They were electrical The Sky Pilot sat up straight and slapped his thigh Soup Face opened hisfire to his ragged trousers Dirty Eddie voiced a characteristic obscenity

"So you sees," went on Coluet both the dame and The Kid Two of us can take her to Oakdale an' claim the reward her old man's offerin' an' de odder two can frisk de Kid, an'--an'--"

"An' wot?" queried The Sky Pilot

"Dere's de swaested Soup Face